Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair

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                                                 Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair
                                           Sasha Haco∗† , Stephen W. Hawking∗ , Malcolm J. Perry∗†⋄ and Andrew Strominger†

                                                                                    Abstract
                                                 A set of infinitesimal Virasoro L ⊗ Virasoro R diffeomorphisms are presented which
                                              act non-trivially on the horizon of a generic Kerr black hole with spin J. The covariant
                                              phase space formalism provides a formula for the Virasoro charges as surface integrals
                                              on the horizon. Integrability and associativity of the charge algebra are shown to
                                              require the inclusion of ‘Wald-Zoupas’ counterterms. A counterterm satisfying the
                                              known consistency requirement is constructed and yields central charges cL = cR =
                                              12J. Assuming the existence of a quantum Hilbert space on which these charges
                                              generate the symmetries, as well as the applicability of the Cardy formula, the central
                                              charges reproduce the macroscopic area-entropy law for generic Kerr black holes.

                                         *DAMTP, Cambridge University, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road,
                                         Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
                                         †Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA
                                         ⋄Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA USA
We are deeply saddened to lose our much-loved friend and collaborator
Stephen Hawking whose contributions to black hole physics remained vitally
   stimulating to the very end. This paper summarizes the status of our
  long-term project on large diffeomorphisms, soft hair and the quantum
        structure of black holes until the end of our time together.

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Contents

1 Introduction                                                                           2

2 Hidden conformal symmetry                                                              4

3 Conformal coordinates                                                                  6

4 Conformal vector fields                                                                7

5 Covariant charges                                                                      9

6 Left movers                                                                           13

7 The area law                                                                          14

8 Discussion                                                                            14

9 Acknowledgements                                                                      16

10 Appendix                                                                             16

1    Introduction

Many supersymmetric or near-supersymmetric black holes in string theory admit a Vir L ⊗
Vir R action of nontrivial or ‘large’ diffeomorphisms [1, 2] (henceforth large diffeos) whose
central charge can be determined by the analysis of Brown and Henneaux [3]. This fact,
along with a few modest assumptions, allow one to determine the microscopic entropy of
the black hole and reproduce [4] the macroscopic area law [5] without reliance on stringy
microphysics.
    More recently, the effects of large diffeos on physically realistic black holes have been
studied from a different point of view [6–42], beginning from the observation of Bondi,
Metzner, van der Burg and Sachs [43] that they can act nontrivially on the boundary of
spacetime at infinity. This paper initiates a synthesis of these approaches, and provides
motivating evidence for the conjecture that the entropy of real-world Kerr black holes can
be understood in a manner similar to their mathematically much better understood stringy
counterparts.

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The large diffeos in stringy examples are not ordinarily taken to act on the entire asymp-
totically flat spacetime. Roughly speaking, the spacetime is divided into two pieces. One
piece contains the black hole and the other asymptotically flat piece has an inner boundary
surrounding a hole. The large diffeos are taken to act on the black hole. The dividing sur-
face is often taken to be the the ‘outer boundary’ of a decoupled near-horizon AdS3 region,
and the large diffeos are taken to act on this region. However, there is some ambiguity in
the choice of dividing surface, and with a suitable extension inward, the large diffeos can
alternately be viewed as acting on the horizon. Indeed, when the black hole is embedded in
an asymptotically flat spacetime there is no clear location to place the outer boundary of the
AdS3 region, and the horizon itself provides a natural dividing surface. Using the covariant
phase space formalism [44–50] (see also the cogent recent review [51]) with a surface term
reproduces the standard entropy results for BTZ black holes in AdS3 from an intrinsically
horizon viewpoint, albeit with a slight shift in interpretation. Further comments on this
division of the spacetime, and the corresponding split of the Hilbert space into two pieces,
appear in the concluding section.
   Using the horizon itself as the dividing surface permits the analysis of a more general
class of black holes without near-horizon decoupling regions, such as most of those seen in
the sky. It was recently shown [6, 7] that supertranslations act non-trivially on a generic
black hole, changing both its classical charges and quantum state i.e. generating soft hair.
However, supertranslations form an abelian group and are clearly inadequate for an inference
of the entropy along the lines of the stringy analysis. As emphasized in [6, 7, 17, 26] a richer
type of soft hair, as in the stringy examples, associated to nonabelian large diffeos, is needed.
   In this paper we consider a more general class of Vir L ⊗ Vir R diffeos of a generic spin
J Kerr black hole, inspired by the discovery some years ago [52] of a ‘hidden conformal
symmetry’ which acts on solutions of the the wave equation in Kerr in a near-horizon region
of phase space rather than spacetime. In [52] and subsequent work e.g. [53–67] the numero-
logical observation was made that, if one assumes the black hole Hilbert space is a unitary
two-dimensional CFT with cR = cL = 12J, the Cardy formula reproduces the entropy. Here
we bring this enticing numerological observation two steps closer to an actual explanation of
the entropy. First we give precise meaning to the hidden conformal symmetry in the form of
an explicit set of Vir L ⊗Vir R vector fields which generate it and moreover act non-trivially on
the horizon in the sense that their boundary charges are non-vanishing. Secondly, within the
covariant formalism, we seek and find a Wald-Zoupas boundary counterterm which removes
certain obstructions to the existence of a well-defined charge and gives cL = cR = 12J.

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We do not herein prove uniqueness of the counterterm, attempt to tackle the difficult
problem of characterizing ‘all’ diffeos which act non-trivially on the black hole horizon, or
show that the charges defined are integrable or actually generate the associated symmetries
via Dirac brackets. These tasks are left to future investigations. For these reasons our
work might be regarded as incremental evidence for, but certainly not a demonstration of,
the hypothesis that hidden conformal symmetry explains the leading black hole microstate
degeneracy.
    Previous potentially related attempts to obtain 4D black hole entropy from a Virasoro
action at the horizon include [19, 42, 68–74].
    This paper is organized as follows. In section 2 we review prior work on hidden conformal
symmetry. Section 3 presents conformal coordinates in which the Virasoro action takes the
simple form presented in section 4. In sections 5 and 6 we compute the covariant right-
moving Iyer-Wald Virasoro charges and identify an obstruction related to the holographic
gravitational anomaly of [75] to their associative and integrable action. A Wald-Zoupas
counterterm which eliminates the obstruction is found and the central terms computed.
In section 7 we show, assuming the validity of the Cardy formula, that the microscopic
degeneracies reproduce the area law. Section 8 concludes with a general argument that
all information about microstates of a generic black hole, transforming under a Virasoro
generated by a large diffeo, is contained in the quantum state outside the horizon.
    Throughout this paper we use units such that c = ~ = k = G = 1.

2    Hidden conformal symmetry

Kerr black holes with generic mass M and spin J ≤ M 2 exhibit a hidden conformal symmetry
which acts on low-lying soft modes [52]. The symmetry emerges, not in a near-horizon region
of spacetime, but in the near-horizon region of phase space defined by

                                        ω(r − r+ ) ≪ 1,                                  (2.1)

where ω is the energy of the soft mode, r is the Boyer-Lindquist radial coordinate and
          √                    J
r+ = M + M 2 − a2 , with a = M   , is the location of the outer horizon. This simply states
that the soft mode wavelength is large compared to the black hole. One way to see the
emergent symmetry is from the fact that the explicit near-horizon wave functions of soft
modes are hypergeometric functions of r, and therefore fall into representations of SL(2, R).
In fact, the scalar wave equation for angular momentum ℓ can be written in this region [52] as

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the formula for the Casimir either of an SL(2, R)L or an SL(2, R)R , with conformal weights

                                              (hL , hR ) = (ℓ, ℓ).                                        (2.2)

A suitably modified formula applies to spinning fields. Another signal of the symmetry is
that the near region contribution to the soft absorption cross sections can be written1

                                          ωL   ωR             ωL           2               ωR 2
         Pabs ∼ TL2hL −1 TR2hR −1 sinh(      +    ) Γ(hL + i      )            Γ(hR + i        ) .        (2.3)
                                          2TL 2TR            2πTL                         2πTR

Here the left and right temperatures are defined by

                                            r+ + r−                r+ − r−
                                    TL =            ,       TR =           ,                              (2.4)
                                              4πa                    4πa
                    √
with r− = M −           M 2 − a2 and the left and right soft mode energies are

                                        2M 2         2M 2
                                   ωL =      ω, ωR =      ω − m,                                          (2.5)
                                         a            a

with (ω, m) the soft mode energy and axial component of angular momentum. The left/right
temperatures and entropies are thermodynamically conjugate, as follows from

                                                        ωL ωR
                                             δSBH =       +   ,                                           (2.6)
                                                        TL TR

where SBH = 2πMr+ is the Kerr black hole entropy.
       Equation (2.3) is precisely the well known formula for the absorption cross section of
an energy (ωL , ωR ) excitation of a 2D CFT at temperatures (TL , TR ). This motivates the
hypothesis that the black hole is itself a thermal 2D CFT and transforms under a Vir L ⊗Vir R
action. Motivated by this, in the spirit of [6, 7], in section 4 below we explicitly realize the
hidden conformal symmetry in the form of Vir L ⊗ Vir R diffeos which act non-trivially on the
black hole horizon.2 We begin by recalling the coordinate transformation [52] which most
clearly exhibits the conformal structure.
   1
    See [52] for a derivation and discussion of the range of validity of this expression.
   2
    We wish to note however that there may also exist, as in the Kerr/CFT [73] context, an alternate holo-
graphic formulation with a left Virasoro-Kac-Moody symmetry, where the Kac-Moody zero mode generates
right-moving translations [76], which surprisingly in some cases provides an alternate explanation for exam-
ple of formulae like (2.3). Indeed with the exciting recent progress in understanding the underlying warped
conformal field theories [77–79] this latter possibility is looking the more plausible for the case of Kerr/CFT.
Investigation of hidden Virasoro-Kac-Moody symmetries for generic black holes is left to future work.

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3       Conformal coordinates

The Kerr metric in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates is

                           2Mr  2                 2a2 Mr sin2 θ  2          4aMr sin2 θ
         ds2 = − 1 −            dt +   r 2
                                           + a2
                                                 +                sin θdφ 2
                                                                            −             dφdt
                            ρ2                          ρ2                       ρ2
                                ρ2
                               + dr 2 + ρ2 dθ2 ,                                               (3.1)
                                ∆

where

                               ρ2 = r 2 + a2 cos2 θ,          ∆ = r 2 + a2 − 2Mr.                   (3.2)

Conformal coordinates are [52]3
                                                 r
                                         +  r − r+ 2πTR φ
                                     w       =      e     ,
                                          r r − r−
                                            r − r+ 2πTL φ− t
                                     w− =           e       2M ,

                                          r r − r −
                                            r+ − r− π(TR +TL )φ− t
                                      y =             e          4M .                               (3.4)
                                             r − r−

The past horizon is at w + = 0, the future horizon at w − = 0 and the bifurcation surface Σbif
at w ± = 0. Under azimuthal identification φ → φ + 2π one finds

                                     2T                      2T                    2 (T +T )
                         w + ∼ e4π     R
                                           w + , w − ∼ e4π     L
                                                                   w − , y ∼ e2π       R  L
                                                                                               y.   (3.5)

This is the same as the identification which turns AdS3 in Poincaré coordinates into BTZ
with temperatures (TL , TR ) where the w ± plane becomes thermal Rindler space [80]. It is
for this reason that conformal coordinates are well-adapted to an analysis of 4D black holes
mirroring that of the 3D BTZ black holes. To leading and subleading order around the
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        The inverse transformation is
                                     1      w+ (w+ w− + y 2 )
                          φ    =         ln                   ,
                                   4πTR           w−
                                               w+ w−
                           r   =   r+ + 4πaTR        ,
                                                 y2
                                   M (TR + TL ) w+      M (TL − TR )
                           t   =                ln − +               ln(w+ w− + y 2 ).              (3.3)
                                        TR         w            TR

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bifurcation surface, the metric becomes

             4ρ2+ + − 16J 2 sin2 θ 2
    ds2 =        dw dw +          dy + ρ2+ dθ2
              y2         y 2 ρ2+
             2w + (8πJ)2 TR (TR + TL ) −
         −                            dw dy
                      y 3 ρ2+                                                                           (3.6)
                −
             8w              2                     2       2               2 2      2
                                                                                         +
         +           − (4πJ)   TL (TR + TL ) + (4J   + 4πJa  (TR + TL ) + a ρ+ ) sin  θ  dw dy
             y 3 ρ2+

         +··· ,

where corrections are at least second order in (w + , w − ). The volume element is

                                                 8J sin θρ2+
                                       εθy+−   =             +··· .                                     (3.7)
                                                     y3

4       Conformal vector fields

Consider the vector fields
                                                     1
                                         ζ(ε) = ε∂+ + ∂+ εy∂y ,                                         (4.1)
                                                     2
where ε is any function of w + . These obey the Lie bracket algebra

                                     [ζ(ε), ζ(ε̃)] = ζ(ε∂+ ε̃ − ε̃∂+ ε).                                (4.2)

We wish to restrict ε so that ζ is invariant under 2π azimuthal rotations (3.5). A complete
set of such functions is4
                                                                in
                                                            1+ 2πT
                                         εn = 2πTR (w + )        R   .                                  (4.3)

The corresponding vector fields ζn ≡ ζ(εn ) obey the centreless VirR algebra

                                        [ζm , ζn ] = i(n − m)ζn+m .                                     (4.4)

The zero mode is

                                            1             2M 2
                         ζ0 = 2πTR (w + ∂+ + y∂y ) = ∂φ +      ∂t = −iωR ,                              (4.5)
                                            2              a
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     (4.3), (4.6) are the same restrictions encountered in the quotient of planar AdS3 to BTZ, or 2D Minkowski
to thermal Rindler [80]. They imply that the ζn (ζ̄n ) are periodic in imaginary right (left) ‘Rindler time’
2π ln w+ (2π ln w− ) with period 2πTR (2πTL ) as in (4.3).

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where the right moving energy ωR is defined in (2.5).
   Similarly,

                                                     1
                                       ζ̄n = ε̄n ∂− + ∂− ε̄n y∂y ,
                                                     2     in
                                                     − 1+ 2πTL
                                       ε̄n = 2πTL (w )         ,                             (4.6)

with
                                                       2M 2
                                             ζ̄0 = −        ∂t = iωL                         (4.7)
                                                        a
obey the centreless VirL algebra

                                           [ζ̄m , ζ̄n ] = i(n − m)ζ̄n+m ,                    (4.8)

and the two sets of vector fields commute with one another

                                                  [ζm , ζ̄n ] = 0.                           (4.9)

Note that the Vir L ⊗ Vir R action maps the ‘θ-leaves’ of fixed polar angle to themselves. ζ
preserves the future horizon and ζ̄ the past horizon.
   The Frolov-Thorne vacuum density matrix for a Kerr black hole is (up to normalization)

                                                         − Tω + Ωm
                                               ρF T = e      H  T    H   ,                  (4.10)

                r+ −r−               a
where TH =      8πM r+
                         and Ω =   2M r+
                                           are the Hawking temperature and angular velocity of the
horizon, with ω and m being interpreted here as energy and angular momentum operators.
Rewriting this in terms of the eigenvalues of the zero modes ζ0 and ζ̄0 one finds simply
                                                             ω   ω
                                                          − TR − TL
                                               ρF T = e      R       L   .                  (4.11)

This is a restatement of the fact that ωR,L is thermodynamically conjugate to TR,L .
   For future reference the only non-zero covariant derivatives of ζ on the bifurcation surface
Σbif are

                                                         y y
  ∇+ ζ + = −Γ−   y      −   − y        y      y      y              θ   θ y
             y− ζ , ∇− ζ = Γy− ζ , ∇+ ζ = ∂+ ζ , ∇θ ζ = Γθy ζ , ∇y ζ = Γyy ζ , (4.12)

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while the only non-zero metric deviations on the bifurcation surface are

                         Lζ gy+ = gyy ∂+ ζ y ,   Lζ g+− = gy− ∂+ ζ y .                   (4.13)

Similar formulae apply to ζ̄.

5    Covariant charges

In this section we construct the linearized covariant charges δQn ≡ δQ(ζn , h; g) associated to
the diffeos ζn acting on the horizon. The construction of covariant charges has a long history
including [44–50]. Formally, the linearized charges are expected to generate the linearized
action, via Dirac brackets, of ζn on the on-shell linearized fluctuation h around a fixed
background g. The formal argument proceeds from the fact that they reduce to the covariant
symplectic form with one argument the ζ-transformed perturbation h. However, in practice
many subtleties arise when attempting to verify such expectations. Among other things one
must reduce, via gauge fixing and the application of the constraints, with careful analyses of
zero modes and boundary conditions, to a physical phase space on which the symplectic form
is nondegenerate. Various obstructions may arise, such as non-integrability of the charges
or violations of associativity which necessitate the addition of boundary counterterms as
discussed for example in [37, 47–50].
    In the much simpler case of horizon supertranslations of Schwarzschild, it was verified in
full detail [7] that the linearized charges δQf do indeed generate the linearized symmetries as
expected. Moreover, the δQf were in this case recently explicitly integrated to the full horizon
supertranslation charges Qf [37]. The δQn of interest here are significantly more complicated
than their supertranslation counterparts δQf . We leave a comprehensive analysis of δQn in
the style of [7] to future work, and the present analysis should therefore be regarded as a
preliminary first step.
    The construction of covariant charges has been reviewed in many places (e.g. [51]) and is
recapped in the appendix. The general form for the linearized charge associated to a diffeo
ζ on a surface Σ with boundary ∂Σ is [49]

                                      δQ = δQIW + δQX .                                    (5.1)

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Here the Iyer-Wald charge is

                                                      1
                                                                 Z
                                    δQIW (ζ, h; g) =                   ∗FIW ,                            (5.2)
                                                     16π          ∂Σ

with FIW ab explicitly given by

                       1
               FIW ab = ∇a ζbh + ∇a hc b ζc + ∇c ζa hc b + ∇c hc a ζb − ∇a h ζb − a ↔ b,                 (5.3)
                       2

where the variation hab is defined by g ab → g ab + hab and h = hab gab . The Wald-Zoupas
counterterm is
                                                1
                                                        Z
                                         δQX =                  ιζ (∗X),                                 (5.4)
                                               16π         ∂Σ

where X is a spacetime one-form constructed from the geometry and linear in h.5 X is not
a priori fully determined by the considerations of [48, 49], where its precise form is left as an
ambiguity. Ultimately one hopes it is fixed by consistency conditions such as integrability
and the demand that the charges generate the symmetry via a Dirac bracket as in [7], or
in the quantum form by action on a Hilbert space. In practice the determination of X has
been made on a case-by-case basis. Our case involves a surface Σ with interior boundary
on the far past of the future horizon, namely the bifurcation surface Σbif at w ± = 0. The
boundary charge on ∂Σ = Σbif is the black hole contribution to the charge. We will find
below consistency conditions that require a nonzero X. A candidate that enables them to
be satisfied is simply
                                             X = 2dxa hab Ωb ,                                           (5.5)

where Ωa is the Há́iček one-form,

                                              Ωa = qac nb ∇c lb ,                                        (5.6)

a measure of the rotational velocity of the horizon. Here the null vectors la and na are both
normal to Σbif and normalized such that l · n = −1. l (n) is taken to be normal to the future
(past) horizon.6 qab = gab + la nb + na lb is the induced metric on Σbif .7
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       ∗X is often denoted Θ.
   6
        l and n must be invariant under 2π rotations which act in conformal coordinates as (3.5). This is
                    2TR            2TL
satisfied by l ∼ y TR +TL ∂+ , n ∼ y TR +TL ∂− on Σbif . These conditions uniquely fixes l and n up to a smooth
rescaling under which Xa → ∂a φ. We could fix this ambiguity by demanding e.g. that Ω be divergence-free
on Σbif but this condition will not be relevant at the order to which we work.
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      See for example [81] for a nice review of hypersurface geometry in the context of black holes.

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As a check on the normalization, we note that

                                          δQ(∂t , δM g; g) = 1.                                       (5.7)

Here δM g is the linearized variation of the Kerr metric at fixed J. The Wald-Zoupas term
δQX does not contribute to this computation.
       We are especially interested in the central term in the Virasoro charge algebra. When
the charge is integrable and there is a well-defined (invertible and associative) Dirac bracket
{, } on the reduced phase space, or in quantum language when Qm is realized as an operator
generating the diffeo ζn on a Hilbert space, one has

                                 {Qn , Qm } = (m − n)Qm+n + Km,n ,                                    (5.8)

where the central term is given by

                                       Km,n = δQ(ζn , Lζm g; g).                                      (5.9)

Moreover, under these conditions, it has been proven (as reviewed in [51]) that the central
term must be constant on the phase space and given, for some constant cR by

                                                    cR m3
                                          Km,n =          δm+n ,                                     (5.10)
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up to terms which can be set to zero by shifting the charges.
       In order to evaluate the charge and the central terms we must specify falloffs for hab near
∂Σ = Σbif . One might demand that all components of hab (which is always required to be
on shell) approach finite functions at Σbif at some rate as in [37]. However this condition is
violated by the hab produced by the large diffeos ζn . We accordingly augment the phase space
to allow for these pure gauge modes as well as the on-shell non-gauge modes that approach
finite values at Σbif 8 . These oscillate periodically in the affine time along the null generators
and do not approach a definite value at Σbif , which is at infinite affine distance from any finite
point on the horizon. Were they not pure gauge, such oscillating perturbations would have
infinite energy flux and would be physically excluded. In the (non-affine) null coordinate w +
along the horizon these modes can have poles at w + = 0. We will find that the charges are
   8
    The details of these rates are important for a complete investigation of integrability. We also restrict
here to the phase space of fixed J. This is an analog of fixing the number of branes in string theory, which
indeed in some cases is U -dual to the higher-dimensional angular momentum.

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nevertheless well-defined and have a smooth w + → 0 limit with such pure gauge excitations.
Moreover, the emergence of a nonvanishing central term relies on the poles: since ζ is actually
tangent to Σbif precisely at w + = 0, the δQX vanishes unless the perturbation produces a
w + -pole in X.9 We will define and compute these counterterms by working at small w + and
then taking the limit. This amounts to approaching Σbif along the future horizon.
      To evaluate the central term we take ζ = ζm and hab = Lζn g ab . It turns out that nonzero
                                                              −y
contributions to Kn,m from δQIW come only from the component FIW in the form

                                          1
                                               Z
                                                                        −y
                                                          dθdw + εθ+−y FIW .                               (5.11)
                                         16π       Σbif

                             2T
The range of w + ∼ e4π         R
                                   w + goes to zero as Σbif is approached, so this expression naively
vanishes. However, using the relation
                                                             2T
                                                   w0+ e4π     R
                                                                   dw +
                                               Z
                                        lim                             = 4π 2 TR ,                        (5.12)
                                         +
                                       w0 →0   w0+                 w+

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such terms can nevertheless contribute as ∂+ ζ y and h−y develop                      w+
                                                                                           poles for w + → 0. One
finds, after some algebra,
                                               −y
                                              FIW = −4hy− y −
                                                       m ζn Γy− ,                                          (5.13)

where
                                                          +−     y
                                                   h−y
                                                    m = g    ∂+ ζm                                         (5.14)

has the requisite pole in w + . Integrating over the sphere gives

                                                                TR
                                       KIW n,m = 2J                   m3 δn+m .                            (5.15)
                                                              TL + TR

      Temperature dependence of the central term (5.15) violates the theorem [51] that it must
be constant on the phase space. Hence there is an obstruction to constructing and integrating
the charges δQIW with well-defined associative Dirac brackets, the existence of which is
assumed in the theorem. We seek to remove this obstruction on the phase space of constant
J by a suitable choice of X. However, we wish to stress the absence of this obstruction
is necessary, but not a priori sufficient, for δQ to exist as an operator on a Hilbert space
with all the desired properties including integrability. This is left to future investigations.
Moreover, we have not shown that (5.5) is unique in eliminating this obstruction.
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      In [37] it was shown that central terms cannot appear in the absence of poles.

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The obstruction is eliminated by including the Wald-Zoupas contribution KXm,n =
δQX (ζn , Lζm g; g), which after integration over Σbif gives

                                                TL − TR 3
                                  KXn,m = J             m δn+m .                            (5.16)
                                                TL + TR

Adding terms (5.15) and (5.16) then yields the central charge

                                              cR = 12J.                                     (5.17)

6    Left movers

In order to compute the left-moving charges on Σbif , it is necessary to evaluate (5.1) with
                                                                                       +y
ζ = ζ̄m and h̄ab = Lζ̄n g ab . Now the relevant contribution to K̄m,n comes only from FIW . On
                                              2T
the past horizon, the range of w − ∼ e4π        L
                                                    w − now goes to zero as Σbif is approached but
again one finds the appearance of poles for w − → 0, coming from terms such as ∂− ζ̄ y and
        +y
h̄+y . FIW can be evaluated to be,

                                       +y              +
                                      FIW = −4h̄y+
                                                m ζ̄n Γ+y ,                                  (6.1)

where
                                         h̄+y
                                           m = g
                                                 +−      y
                                                    ∂− ζ̄m                                   (6.2)

has a pole in w − . Integrating over the sphere gives

                                                      TL
                                K̄IW n,m = 2J               m3 δm+n .                        (6.3)
                                                    TR + TL

    Since Σbif is being approached from the past horizon, the vector fields la and na are now
defined so that l is normal to the past horizon and n is normal to the future horizon. Again,
both are null and satisfy l · n = −1. An analysis of the periodicities gives
                                        2TL                  2TR
                                 l ∼ y TR +TL ∂− , n ∼ y TR +TL ∂+ .                         (6.4)

The resulting term involving X integrates to

                                                TR − TL 3
                                  K̄Xn,m = J            m δm+n .                             (6.5)
                                                TR + TL

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The sum of these two terms yields
                                               cL = 12J.                                       (6.6)

         We note that the Wald-Zoupas counterterm δQX contributes only to cL − cR and not
cL +cR and hence may be related to the holographic gravitational anomalies discussed in [75].

7         The area law

Using cL = cR = 12J as given above, the temperature formulae (2.4) and the Cardy formula

                                               π2
                                    SCardy =      (cL TL + cR TR ),                            (7.1)
                                               3

yields the Hawking-Bekenstein area-entropy law for generic Kerr

                                                               Area
                                 SBH = SCardy = 2πMr+ =             .                          (7.2)
                                                                4

8         Discussion

In this concluding section we give a formal argument that, whenever black hole microstates
are in representations of large-diffeomorphism-generated Virasoro algebras, as conjectured
for Kerr in this paper, the black hole Hilbert space must be contained within the Hilbert
space of states outside the black hole. The observations apply equally to the case discussed
here and to the stringy black holes with near-AdS3 regions. Our argument is a refined and
sharpened version of those made elsewhere from different perspectives and is perhaps in the
general spirit, if not the letter, of black hole complementarity.10
         Consider a hypersurface Σdiv which divides the black hole spacetime into a black hole
region and an asymptotically flat region with a hole. Σdiv may be taken to be the stretched
horizon, the event horizon or in stringy cases the outer boundary of an AdS region: for
the purposes of microstate counting the difference will be subleading and the distinction
irrelevant. For a scalar field theory on such a fixed geometry it is reasonably well understood
how to decompose the full Hilbert space Hfull of scalar excitations on a complete spacelike
slice which goes through the black hole11 as a product of ‘black hole’ and ‘exterior’ Hilbert
spaces HBH and Hext , following the Minkowski decomposition into the left and right Rindler
    10
     See [82] for a recent review.
    11
    We consider here black holes such as those formed in a collapse process with no second asymptotic
region, so that complete spacelike slices with only one asymptotic boundary exist.

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Hilbert spaces. Roughly speaking, one expects the tensor product factorization,

                                           Hfull = Hext ⊗ HBH .                                     (8.1)

For full quantum gravity, or even for linearized gravitons, it is not understood how to make
such a decomposition. Nevertheless, in the stringy cases if Σdiv is taken to be the outer bound-
ary of an AdS region, a practical working knowledge of how to proceed is well-established.
       Let us nevertheless imagine that we have achieved such a decomposition which makes
sense at leading semiclassical order for any of the above choices of Σdiv . A state in the full
Hilbert space may then be expressed as a sum over product states12
                                                    X
                                       |Ψfull i =         cAb |ΨA      b
                                                                ext i|ΨBH i.                        (8.2)
                                                    A,b

The existence of such a decomposition is presumed in many discussions of black hole infor-
mation. Consider a set of diffeos ζn , defined everywhere in the spacetime, which all vanish
near spatial infinity, but in a neighborhood of Σdiv becomes a pair of Virasoros which act
nontrivially on the black hole. Since the diffeos vanish at infinity, the associated full charges
must annihilate the full quantum state

                                            Q(ζn )full |Ψfulli = 0.                                 (8.3)

On the other hand, beginning with the asymptotic surface integral expression for Qfull and
integrating by parts we have

                                     Q(ζn )full = Q(ζn )ext + Q(ζn )BH .                            (8.4)

Equation (8.3) then becomes
                  X                                            X
                         cAb (Q(ζn )ext |ΨA       b
                                          ext i)|ΨBH i = −            cAb |ΨA               b
                                                                            ext iQ(ζn )BH |ΨBH i.   (8.5)
                   A,b                                          A,b

By assumption the black hole microstates transform non-trivially under the Virasoro so
neither side of the equation vanishes for all n.
       In the generic case, absent any extra symmetries such as supersymmetry, we expect HBH
to be composed of Virasoro representations with highest weight hk , where each hk is distinct.
  12
    Very likely we will actually need an integral over Hilbert spaces corresponding to different boundary
conditions on Σdiv [83–86] but we suppress this important point for notational brevity.

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A black hole microstate is then uniquely determined by specifying the representation in which
it lies and location therein. In that case, (8.5) can be satisfied only if Hext contains all the
conjugate representations, and the constant cAb are chose so that |Ψfull i is a Virasoro singlet.
At first the conclusion that the exterior state should transform under the Virasoro action
may seem strange. But at second thought, the exterior region has an inner boundary on
which ζn necessarily acts non-trivially, so this is entirely plausible.
     Given this state of affairs, it follows immediately that the specific black hole microstate
in HBH is fully determined by complete measurement of the microstate in Hext : it is the
unique element in the conjugate representation which forms a singlet with the exterior state.
Instead of (8.1) we therefore have
                                          Hfull = Hext .                                    (8.6)

That is, factorization of the Hilbert space with the inclusion of gravity fails in the most
extreme possible way: there are no independent interior black hole microstates at all! This
is of course a pleasing conclusion since the independent interior microstates are at the root
of the information paradox.
     For supersymmetric black holes, Bogomolny bounds enforce degeneracies in the weights
hk and the argument leading to (8.6) no longer works. Nevertheless, one may hope for a
related mechanism, perhaps along the lines discussed in [87, 88] using discrete rather than
continuous gauge symmetries, preventing an unwanted independent black hole Hilbert space.

9     Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Sangmin Choi, Geoffrey Compère, Peter Galison, Monica Guica, Dan
Harlow, Roy Kerr, Alex Lupsasca, Juan Maldacena, Alex Maloney, Suvrat Raju and Maria
Rodriguez for useful conversations. This paper was supported in part by DOE de-sc0007870,
the John Templeton Foundation, the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard, the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study and the UK STFC.

10     Appendix

We begin with a very brief recap of the covariant phase space charges. A recent comprehen-
sive discussion, including counterterm ambiguities and also adapted to black hole horizons,

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can be found in [37]. The starting point is the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian four-form,

                                                 ε
                                         L=         R.                                 (10.1)
                                                16π

The variation is

                                         ε ab
                              δL = −        G hab + dθ[h, g],                          (10.2)
                                        16π

where δh generates the variation gab → gab − hab . The presymplectic potential θ is the three
form

                                          1
                           θ[h, g] = ∗       (∇b hab − ∇a h)dxa ,                      (10.3)
                                         16π

with * being the Hodge dual. The infinite-dimensional phase space of general relativity
has as its tangent vectors the infinitesimal metric perturbations hab that obey the linearised
Einstein equations. Although θ is a three-form in spacetime, it is also a one-form in the
phase space. The presymplectic form,

                          ω[h1 , h2 , g] = δh1 θ[h2 , g] − δh2 θ[h1 , g]               (10.4)

obeys dω = 0 and can therefore be used to define a conserved inner product. ω is a two-form
in the phase space. The linearized charge δQ0 is then obtained from the presymplectic form
ω(h1 , h2 ; g) by the replacement of h1 with a large diffeomorphism Lζ g,
                                                  Z
                               δQ0 (ζ, h; g) =           ω(Lζ g, h; g),                (10.5)
                                                    Σ3

where we will take Σ3 to be a Cauchy surface for the black hole exterior with boundaries
at spatial infinity and at the bifurcation surface, Σbif . Moreover, we restrict our phase
space to the on-shell perturbations hab that remain finite at the boundary, up to pure gauge
transformations of the form (4.13). When the variation is due to a diffeomorphism ζ, the
presymplectic form is exact and thus reduces to a boundary integral, giving rise to the
Iyer-Wald charge,
                                                 1
                                                           Z
                               δQIW (ζ, h; g) =                   ∗FIW ,               (10.6)
                                                16π         ∂Σ3

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as it must in order for diffeomorphisms which vanish on the boundary to have δQIW = 0.
Explicitly,

                 1
         FIW ab = ∇a ζb h + ∇a hc b ζc + ∇c ζa hc b + ∇c hc a ζb − ∇a h ζb − a ↔ b.   (10.7)
                 2

   Wald and Zoupas [49] noted an ambiguity in the addition of a possible counterterm δQX
of the general form
                                           1
                                                 Z
                                    δQX =                ιζ (∗X),                     (10.8)
                                          16π       ∂Σ

where X is a to-be-determined spacetime one-form constructed from the geometry. The
resulting charge is
                                      δQ = δQIW + δQX .                               (10.9)

The interpretation of δQ is the difference in the charge conjugate to ζ between the configu-
ration gab and gab − hab .

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